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Atari Acquires Intellivision Brand
Submitted 11 months ago by Goronmon@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/atari-acquires-intellivision-brand-120000940.html
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ID411@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
QuincyPeck@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Sounds like a lost story from the early 80s.
lqdrchrd@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
I bet Tommy’s mother is very proud of
TORFdot0@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Isn’t Tommy working for colecovision?
jedibob5@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Huh, first I’m hearing of this Amico thing. I don’t know if it really has the support to capture enough of the market it seems to be going for… It looks like it’s trying to go for the “family-friendly, easy-to-use” concept that the Wii had, but the Wii had Nintendo behind it, along with other major publishers making games for it. The games included also look rather… basic.
…Annnnd it’s also a Tommy Tallarico thing. Of course it is. Why on earth does Atari want this?
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You should read up on the Amico and in particular watch Pat The NES Punk’s various videos on it. The entire debacle is hilarious.
The Amico is/was basically an investor scam. Yes, it did eventually turn into an actual product (which is crap) but it was never intended to be a serious contender to anything. The intent was for Tommy Tallarico to get his face published everywhere and pocket/embezzle a significant amount of investor and Indiegogo money.
The system itself is basically an out-of-date smartphone chipset running a cut down version of Android. Most of its games, as you would expect, are basically mobile trash. Just, mobile trash you have to pay up front for a console with bullshit controls to even play it on.
inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Speaking of Tommy Tallarico, the Hbomberguy video on him was hilarious, sad and eye opening.
snownyte@kbin.social 11 months ago
And they totally wasted a new Earthworm Jim game on that thing.
But yeah, Tommy Tallarico had a personal vendetta with Pat the NES Punk for a while, taking swipes at them as he was covering the whole issue on his podcast the CUPodcast. It's a really wild ride from beginning to end, if it ever did end.
altima_neo@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
Atari doesn’t want that. They’re leaving Tallarico to run the amico under license.
jedibob5@lemmy.world 11 months ago
In that case, I’m still not sure what the Intellivision brand even has left that Atari would want… I guess they could do one of those nostalgia re-release collections of old Intellivision games, but I feel like the nostalgia market for a nearly 50-year-old console mostly known for being a failed competitor to the 2600 is… very niche.
Lanusensei87@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Sunk cost? Perhaps they think the idea has potential without the baggage having The First American around.
SquigglyEmpire@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Who was on MTV Cribs* no less!
*Note: was not on MTV Cribs
Jomega@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I could have sworn Atari was bankrupt. Where’d they get the money to acquire anything?
ilinamorato@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Bankruptcy is intended to be (though is not often in actuality) a temporary restructuring period. A lot of companies just end up liquidating while under bankruptcy proceedings, but Atari emerged from Chapter 11 in 2014 after a year of restructuring and selling off IPs to pay their bills. Now they’re doing a bunch of stuff, including casinos and hotels.
magnetosphere@fedia.io 11 months ago
… casinos and hotels.
On one hand, that’s weird AF. On the other, I would definitely stay at (and probably steal towels from) the Hotel Atari.
Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 11 months ago
(Half of bankruptcy is restructuring/planning while the other half is liquidation. Either way, the goal is to have a clean-ish start in debt terms.)
son_named_bort@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Are they going to acquire Coleco next?
shalafi@lemmy.world 11 months ago
londos@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Capitao_Duarte@lemmy.eco.br 11 months ago
What is atari doing nowadays? They have some IP, are there new consoles or they live due the past?
TrousersMcPants@lemmy.world 11 months ago
They have some new IPs but they’re purely game publishers nowadays, primarily more indie and AA titles afaik
snownyte@kbin.social 11 months ago
They've been this way since the late 90s and 2000s. More publishing than doing. Sometimes they'll throw out a Atari Classics compilation but that's it.
inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Sure, but they both lost the war long ago. This is just some archeologist coming along to display both their bones in a museum hoping to boost gift shop sells.
TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social 11 months ago
Two of my favorite consoles of all time. If they could do an updated retro console based on the Intellivision II and allow playing Atari 2600 games without buying a separate adapter I would be in heaven.
I have bins of games, but my controllers did not age 40+ years all that well. 😞
TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I cannot speak to Intelliviaion, but you can get 2600 replacement controllers. If you’ve still got them it’s also likely that you can get someone to repair them if the issue is the electronics.
snownyte@kbin.social 11 months ago
Which is hilarious because they were both part of the reason the video game market crashed back then.